Cooking, Creating, Baking, and Farm Life
One rainy and cold early spring night in mid-April, Puddles the glorious walked away from the only life he ever knew and landed on the doorstep of a friend of mine. You see, puddles arrived on the doorstep; soaking wet and exhausted, battered and beaten, he collapsed at the bottom of the porch into a puddle. The next morning, my friend opened the front door to let the dogs out …
You know the old adage, only “61 days until spring.” I look at this cold, frozen barren landscape and wonder how anything will ever emerge again. Many times Driving home on the icy roads with the wind howling, I think about the people who came before me out here in rural Minnesota. I think about what the daily life for the woman was like as she worked to keep the …
The Blue Jay and I were sitting around the farm having the longest conversation the other day about how we believe Chuck the Squirrel is a hoarder. We couldn’t help but notice Chuck’s constant obsession with collecting and hiding acorns in every nook and cranny. It seems like his hoarding behavior has reached an extreme level, as we often find acorns stashed even in the most unexpected places. Chuck likes …
Going outside is my daily routine that adds health and continued wellness to my daily life. I will find time no matter what the weather is doing, I mean weather will always happen so you might as well embrace it! I either walk down the long dirt driveway to the mailbox, you see I live on a farm and everything out here takes a bit more time to do, so …
The holidays are almost officially here. I mean, just yesterday I picked fresh herbs from the garden and finished up gathering seeds for next year’s garden. I’m always saying time has wings, and this year I have proof, as I am now making my shopping list for Thanksgiving and starting to gather my thoughts for Christmas. Thanksgiving was originally planned as a no-one cooks, lets go out to eat celebration, …
The baking extravaganza all started with the announcement that my two daughters were coming over early Sunday morning! They had a to do list to do with the horses, it was going to be one of those wonderfully long days filled with outside chores , good food, laughter and complete exhaustion at the end of the day. Because I always have a to-do list that needs some TLC every now …
Do you ever get in the mood, where you start thinking about what if ? Like, what if I were to put honey in my rice, chocolate on my French toast, or sloppy joe into my tater tots? Suddenly you realize the what-if has now turned into a meal all by itself, and you run through the house yelling at the top of your lungs, ” I did it! I …
We lost a dear friend on Aug 09 2021, who was from a different time and place for all three of us. Francis, (frannie) our beloved cat of 22 years! My daughter was 9 when my daughter adopted her as a kitten, or as we say, Francis adopted us. We first met Frannie when we took pottery lessons from a very sweet old lady, who must have had 30 cats …
There has been an whirlwind of activity here at Long Ears Farm in the past couple weeks. With the return of warmer temps, I am now able to get everything outside set up in the garden, open up the chicken coops, build gates, repair fences, and turn the outside water back on, and bring the swamp cooler back online. Annie and Penny have been very involved in all the action …
I can mop up the floors and clean up the mud, vacuum the carpets and shake out the rugs. I can clean the house and do the chores, even wash the laundry once more. But I can’t replace the smiles and the laughter, those will live on long after. Long after the pawprints fade and the collars are finally put away. They may be muddy and they may be gross …
